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Reverberating throughout the 40-year-old “Star Wars” franchise, one refrain has always held the galaxy together: “May the Force be with you.”

Emotional, stirring, and in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” even elegiac, the line takes on new meaning in scenes the late Carrie Fisher shares with Laura Dern as Vice Adm. Holdo, one of the leaders of Gen. Leia Organa’s Resistance and the enigmatic new character whose principles lead the saga into its next chapter.

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